The fight for speakership has House Republicans squirming, as Kevin McCarthy loyalists and the MAGA-infused Freedom Caucus clash over McCarthy’s speakership bid. And now, one of McCarthy’s most ardent supporters is not entirely shutting down questions about being a possible backup should McCarthy fail.
Geez, all the scumbags are crawling out from their filthy burrows, looking for the limelight.
Who can blame him? That job would be like volunteering to be on rotation for a carnival knife-throwing act.
Scalise Is Not NOT Interested In Being Backup Plan For Speaker
Not to mention the GOP penchant for eating their own speakers alive, a la Boehner and Ryan.
I expected as much. Those who volunteer for the position only see the job as performative and never administrative. You would see more Republican yahoos stepping up if the job description included throwing bricks.
I see what the headline says, but then I see this sentence:
And now, one of McCarthy’s most ardent supporters is not entirely shutting down questions about being a possible backup should McCarthy fail.
Is there an editing problem here, Emine?
ETA: Thanks, @occamscoin:
Count the "not"s in the headline.
Count the "not"s in the headline.
THANK YOU!!!
I can almost feel sorry for both of them. Boehner knew the job required administrative skills at the beginning of his tenure. He probably would have stayed in politics longer if all he had to do was manage a caucus filled with people like Dick Armey. Then the TEA Party happened. Ryan did a song-and-dance to get the job then discovered that it required real administrative and diplomatic skills to manage the party crazies. By definition, they are unmanageable. A decade has done nothing to temper their collective mental illness. I speculate that Kevin McCarthy wants the job because he really is that dumb.
Ah, yes. I really dislike double negatives.
The dude is being coy. He’s not NOT interested at the same time that he will neither confirm nor deny his interest. That bastard is just playing games.
ETA: I thought it was just a typo.
I happened to read the guest list at the State Dinner for Macron. I was surprised to see Scalise’s name, but maybe that had more to do with his position in the House republican leadership. He came alone, apparently.
“I’m running for Speaker to break the establishment,” Biggs wrote in a Twitter post Tuesday. “Kevin McCarthy was created by, elevated by, and maintained by the establishment.”
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Right. The headline and the story have an incongruence.
The GOP House is tethered too much to Trump…and his position is growing more comical and less viable.
Besides…Speaker to do WHAT?
Yes, a State dinner is not a private function and there are protocols to be followed. Joe wouldn’t be so silly as to ignore those, even if his disgusting predecessor did.
Speak? That’s the only administrative act that comes to mind because we all know that nothing is going to get done with this fractious bunch.
With the ‘cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs’ configuration of the House Repubs, one would think that any self-respecting member of that group would rather stick needles in their eyes rather than seeking the office of Speaker.
